“Some one else!” commented Bonnie May, and she turned to Flora. “Do you have so much company every evening?” she asked.
“So much company!” echoed Flora; she looked puzzled.
“Well, never mind,” Bonnie May hastened to add. “Some one is expecting you in the drawing-room. And please let me receive the new visitor!”
She opened the drawing-room door, and watched while Flora wonderingly entered. Then she pulled the door to cautiously. She had heard a low, forlorn note of surprise in Flora’s voice, and Mr. Addis’s eager, whispered greeting.
Then she opened the front door in time to prevent the newcomer from ringing.
“You seem a little old for the part,” she suggested.
A young man of a rather assertive Bohemian appearance stood before her.
“Hello!” was his greeting. The tone denoted surprise, rather than familiarity. He hastily added: “Excuse me—is Victor—Mr. Baron—in?”
Bonnie May perceived that he was not quite comfortable, not at all self-possessed. He seemed to her a strange person to be calling on any of the Barons. Still, he seemed rather human.